[Libosinfo] [osinfo-db PATCH 0/8] Add missing command line info for tree based installations

[Cole Robinson]

On 4/25/19 9:27 AM, Fabiano Fidêncio wrote:
> Tree based installations will need more info from the command line than
> what's currently provided by osinfo-db.
> 
> For instance:
> - OpenSUSE requires "install=URL"
> - Silverblue requires "inst.repo=URL"
> - Fedora < 19 requires "method=URL" and >= 19 requires "inst.repo=URL"
> - CentOS/RedHat < 7 require "method=URL" and >= 7 require "inst.repo=URL"
> 
> With those patches, management apps can rely solely in the command line
> generated by us for doing tree based installations.
> 

This is an improvement, but I was originally thinking we would expose
the kernel argument in some way that it could be queried by apps
directly. That way virt-install could eventually use it to drop our own
hardcoded method/inst.repo/install mapping and just depend on osinfo-db
to provide it. Maybe if we solve that problem too then the result will
look a bit different

I'm not really sure how to best do that besides putting a
<kernel-url-arg> field or something in the <os>, but that seems
inflexible. Any ideas? Some way to query the unattended API objects for
this info?

- Cole